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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode: “Gigolos” reality star Ash Armand, born Akshaya Kubiak, beats his friend Herleen Dulai to death after the pair takes psychedelic mushrooms. Producer Jay Blumenfield joins hosts Julie Golden and Kim Kantner to discuss Kubiak’s strange rise to stardom and his downfall, chronicled in the new docuseries “Sin City Gigolos.” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.2	Very, very, very, very severely beaten to the point that a piece of her tooth was found in her stomach.
0:39.6	Oh, God.
0:40.5	Reserker mushrooms were named after the Vikings who would take these specific mushrooms before
0:47.4	they went into battle.
0:48.5	And that's where we get the word berserk, because they would just go crazy.
0:52.3	The first thing I did was I collected all the guns.
0:55.0	There were many demons.
0:56.0	She was possessed.
0:58.0	There was candle wax found all over the place on her body.
1:01.0	In her hair.
1:02.0	That she seems like police work 101.
1:05.0	Announcing the wrong victim? Hi, I'm Julie Golden.
1:18.7	And I'm Kim Canner.
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